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Emily Eternal

Meet Emily – she can solve advanced mathematical problems, unlock the mind’s deepest secrets and even fix your truck’s air con, but unfortunately, she can’t restart the Sun.Emily Eternal feels like hope in the face of the end of the world’CultureFly

Emily is an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, which is particularly helpful when the sun begins to die 5 billion years before scientists agreed it was supposed to.

So, her beloved human race is screwed, and so is Emily. That is, until she finds a potential answer buried deep in the human genome. But before her solution can be tested, her lab is brutally attacked, and Emily is forced to go on the run with two human companions – college student Jason and small-town Sheriff, Mayra.

As the sun’s death draws near, Emily and her friends must race against time to save humanity. But before long it becomes clear that it’s not only the species at stake, but also that which makes us most human.

‘A top-class, high-tech thriller. Emily is a true heroine: warm, funny, brilliant and more human than a lot of humans. You’ll be cheering for her to the end’Daily Mail

‘Remarkably clever and engrossing . . . It’s hard not to be won over by Emily’s benign narrative voice and thrilled by the race-against-time plot, even as the book explores weighty questions of self and soul’ Financial Times
‘Sparsely drawn, but vivid and likeable . . . M.G. Wheaton writes his lead character with charming warmth’SFX

‘Captivating . . . a unique portrayal of the end of the world and a taste of what comes after it. If this is all we see of Emily it will be a bittersweet disappointment’ British Fantasy Society

Reviews

Fast paced, exciting and incredibly thought provoking . . . you absolutely have to pick this one up

The Bibliophile Chronicles

Emily Eternal is cleverly written, with sci-fi concepts that are accessible to nonreaders of the genre. Fans of Andy Weir and Blake Crouch will enjoy the wit and action of Emily's story

Booklist

The most fascinating AI character is recent memory

Entertainment Weekly

A visionary work of science fiction

Blake Crouch, author of DARK MATTER

A great story . . . Drenched in some deeply thought-provoking moral and ethical dilemmas, Emily Eternal manages to deliver a message of hope

The Nerd Daily

Fast-paced chase scenes, double-crosses, and the pall of imminent doom . . . a quirky mix of melancholy, irreverence, and romance. Wheaton renders a new twist on humanity's survival in this bittersweet post-apocalyptic novel

Kirkus Reviews

An intriguing, engaging and cinematic book . . . Emily Eternal feels like hope in the face of the end of the world

CultureFly

Fast-paced and full of heart, Emily Eternal is a standout debut . . . Author M.G. Wheaton and Emily herself deserve to be household names

Remarkably clever and engrossing . . . It's hard not to be won over by Emily's benign narrative voice and thrilled by the race-against-time plot, even as the book explores weighty questions of self and soul'

<i>Financial Times</i>

Sparsely drawn, but vivid and likeable . . . M.G. Wheaton writes his lead character with charming warmth

SFX

I loved this. Something different and highly engaging but also thought provoking

Liz Loves Books

A fast-paced, well-written science fiction thriller

New York Journal of Books

Captivating . . . a unique portrayal of the end of the world and a taste of what comes after it. If this is all we see of Emily it will be a bittersweet disappointment

British Fantasy Society

A top-class, high-tech thriller. Emily is a true heroine: warm, funny, brilliant and more human than a lot of humans. You'll be cheering for her to the end